Ref: S5D40307
Develop a personal vocabulary of ideas for your jewellery making whilst gaining making skills and learning new techniques relevant to your projects. The course begins with a short, structured project, and then fabricating, decorating and joining will be demonstrated.
You will increase your understanding of how to make jewellery and how to develop an individual design vocabulary as you gain confidence in your ideas and a new level of creativity. Successful contemporary studio jewellers depend on having a unique and personal quality to the designs they produce. This course will help you to understand more about the process of design and will help you develop a personal vocabulary of ideas, alongside learning a range of techniques appropriate to your designs.
Your tutors approach to teaching skills is mostly on an individual basis, where needed. However, she will demonstrate some techniques that are relevant to all or some of the group. She aims to instil confidence and to encourage you to be creative.
As well as basic fabrication techniques and decorative processes, you are encouraged to think about incorporating other materials, such as exotic hardwood, bone, shell, feathers, paper, acrylic and found materials. You will look at different sorts of cold connections to enable these materials to be combined with silver to make individual and exciting pieces.
By the end of the course, you will have gained knowledge of how to design jewellery and the processes to execute these designs. Everyone should complete at least one piece of jewellery.
Use of tools and machinery You will need to purchase silver or copper to complete your project. This can be purchased from the College Shop or in advance from a supplier.
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Please note: If you have any definite ideas of what you would like to make and achieve on the course or any previous experience, please email: [email protected] before the course. This will help the tutor plan the best course possible.
Metal can be brought in advance from: Silver supplier: Argex Limited, Birmingham or Tools, Precious Metal: Cookson Precious Metals, London
Wear appropriate clothing/aprons for the workshop or studio, this includes stout covered footwear, i.e. no open-toes or sandals.
Arrival day - first date of course
Residential students can arrive from 4pm, non-residential students to arrive by 6.45pm for registration
Student welcome, followed by dinner: 6.45pm (dinner included)
Teaching session: 8pm-9pm (attendance is essential)
Daily timetable
Course teaching: 9.15am-5pm
Morning session: 9.15am-12.45pm including coffee/tea break
Lunch break: 12.45pm-2pm (lunch included)
Afternoon session: 2pm-5pm including coffee/tea break
Teaching finishes: 5pm
Evening working: students may have access to workshops until 9pm, but only with permission from the tutor and provided any health and safety guidelines are observed.
Departure day - last date of course
Course teaching: 9.15am-3pm (lunch included)
Teaching finishes: 3pm
Residential students will need to check out of rooms by 10am.
Please note, the tutor may make slight variations to the daily timetable as required.
Sarah graduated Brighton Polytechnic in 1981 and has combined her studio practice as a jeweller with teaching part time. A member of The Designer Jewellers Group, she has exhibited at the Barbican Arts Centre (London) for the last twenty eight years. In 2000 Sarah was invited to write an introduction to Jewellery for Crowood Press and she features in several youtube videos. Sarah's work can be seen on Facebook and Instagram.
Residential option available. Find out accommodation costs and how to book here.
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